A Sea Of Red

Eastern Kentucky University
Richmond, Kentucky


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Alumni Coliseum - McBrayer Arena
Opened in 1963 - Seats 6500



A.W. Hamilton
4th Season as EKU Head Coach


2021-2022 Schedule/Results

Nov 09 - Georgetown College ..................................... W 93-63
Nov 11 - Ohio Valley ................................................... W 103-74
Nov 13 - @ Milwaukee ................................................ W 77-71
Nov 16 - JMU .............................................................. L 78-79
Nov 20 - Albany .......................................................... W 77-64
Nov 22 - Eastern Illinois .............................................. W 82-43
Nov 26 - @ West Virginia ............................................. L 77-80
Nov 28 - @ Radford ..................................................... L 75-88
Dec 04 - @ Western Kentucky ..................................... L 80-85
Dec 07 - @ USC ........................................................... L 68-80
Dec 11 - Marshall ........................................................ L 69-80
Dec 15 - Midway ......................................................... W 121-67
Dec 18 - Northern Kentucky ....................................... W 81-68
Dec 22 - @ Bryant ...................................................... Canceled
Dec 31 - Alice Lloyd .................................................... W 106-52
Jan 04 - Central Arkansas .......................................... L 72-79
Jan 08 - @ Bellarmine ................................................ L 61-66
Jan 11 - @ North Alabama ......................................... L 75-76
Jan 15 - Jacksonville State ......................................... L 65-76
Jan 18 - Lipscomb ...................................................... W 86-72
Jan 22 - North Florida ................................................ W 67-58
Jan 27 - @ FGCU ......................................................... L 73-77
Jan 29 - @ Stetson ...................................................... L 95-113
Feb 03 - Kennesaw State
Feb 05 - Liberty
Feb 09 - @ Jacksonville
Feb 12 - @ Lipscomb
Feb 16 - North Alabama
Feb 19 - @ Central Arkansas
Feb 23 - @ Jacksonville State
Feb 26 - Bellarmine


Key Player


#14 Devontae Blanton
6' 6" 214 lbs Freshman Forward
Thru 21 Games: Averaging 11.1 Pts, 6.3 Rebs & 3.2 Assists + 17-of-44 (38.6%) on 3-Pt Attempts

Midway seems like a long flight and a small school…..

Maybe it was at a carnival

Purple Haize wrote: ↑February 3rd, 2022, 5:31 pm Midway seems like a long flight and a small school…..

Kudos to anyone under 50 who gets that one...

stokesjokes wrote: ↑February 3rd, 2022, 8:26 pm Maybe it was at a carnival

I heard their rims are smaller

Game is at 6:00 PM.
Eastern time, I think, but not certain.

Geraldos Mustache wrote: ↑February 5th, 2022, 12:54 pm Game is at 6:00 PM.
Eastern time, I think, but not certain.

ESPN+ says 7:00PM, so I think that is CST.

Purple Haize wrote: ↑February 3rd, 2022, 5:31 pm Midway seems like a long flight and a small school…..

https://images.app.goo.gl/n3FtZ8Mg7v33AoMK6

Pretty dominate first half. Good guys are up 49-30.

EKU technical broadcast crew struggling with the audio controls.

SumItUp wrote: ↑February 5th, 2022, 8:49 pm EKU technical broadcast crew struggling with the audio controls.

Quite an understatement

Really odd to see this many turnovers from a RMK team

Been weird this year. Seems so anyway

Rode needs 3 assists for a triple double.

It’s not me.

16 total this game.

10 in the second half leading to 19 pts

Make it 18. Wow.

Extremely sloppy second half but lucky for us the dominate first half was enough for us to come out on top 91-84.

aredd33 wrote: ↑February 5th, 2022, 9:52 pm Extremely sloppy second half but lucky for us the dominate first half was enough for us to come out on top 91-84.

Full court press is our Achilles heel. Don’t know why opposing teams don’t do it from the opening tip.

Hockey all tied up if your channel surfing espn +

tyndal23 wrote: ↑February 5th, 2022, 9:54 pm

aredd33 wrote: ↑February 5th, 2022, 9:52 pm Extremely sloppy second half but lucky for us the dominate first half was enough for us to come out on top 91-84.

Full court press is our Achilles heel. Don’t know why opposing teams don’t do it from the opening tip.

Agreed. Think we’re going to see it more and more. Only reason some teams may not do it from the tip is that they’re just not made for it. Going against pressure wire-to-wire against, say, Jack State? That’s a scary thought because of their length. Conference tourney could be a war.

Great to see some offense from Warfield and Venzant. We will need more of that in the future.

JK37 wrote: ↑February 6th, 2022, 7:15 am

tyndal23 wrote: ↑February 5th, 2022, 9:54 pm

aredd33 wrote: ↑February 5th, 2022, 9:52 pm Extremely sloppy second half but lucky for us the dominate first half was enough for us to come out on top 91-84.

Full court press is our Achilles heel. Don’t know why opposing teams don’t do it from the opening tip.

Agreed. Think we’re going to see it more and more. Only reason some teams may not do it from the tip is that they’re just not made for it. Going against pressure wire-to-wire against, say, Jack State? That’s a scary thought because of their length. Conference tourney could be a war.

McKay has obviously recognized the need for ball-handlers by burning Moore’s redshirt (even though he barely plays) and having Colin Porter reclassify.
I suspect more full-court press would mean we see more of Moore. I’d also suspect we’d see Warfield and Venzant in press-break mode getting some easy buckets slashing to the rim. I think if we expected to see it regularly, we’d be able to take advantage of it.

Against the press and trying to hold a lead, McGhee was on the bench. Should we be reading anything into that? Seemed he had a few of the TO’s, but still a superb FT shooter and confident ball handler would be valuable late game - I would think.

. . . .and EKU was missing 3 starters in their lineup, including their leading scorer. A W is a W. Beverly (NC State transfer) may be out awhile and may or may not be back for tournament time. They'll be a tough out and can see why they were picked 2nd in preseason.

JK37 wrote: ↑February 6th, 2022, 1:02 pm Against the press and trying to hold a lead, McGhee was on the bench. Should we be reading anything into that? Seemed he had a few of the TO’s, but still a superb FT shooter and confident ball handler would be valuable late game - I would think.

He had 6. , and his turnover issues are by no means limited to this game. He really needs to value the ball more. He also missed a FT, which is a rare event, but may have been the last straw in him getting pulled.